Truth & Heresy on Bobby's Camino

This audiobook is not a travel guide, there are plenty of those. It is a personal account of a typical Camino pilgrim designed to help past, current and future pilgrims to understand something about the strange road to Santiago, that continues to attract and fascinate hundreds of thousands of people every year. It may also be the story of a romantic fool, or a deluded idiot depending on your perspective.

Leaving his business for many weeks, after a tumultuous year, Bobby travels to the starting point of the Camino Frances — walking from St Jean in France, and then across Spain. We come to understand the highs and lows of this life-changing experience. How do pilgrims comes to know themselves? How to they deal with pent up emotions and indelible memories? What is the purpose of pilgrimage for those who do it without faith? What are the resets that many are looking for?

Weather: searing hot days through scrubland, pouring rain in the mountains, the barren Meseta. People: meet the actor, the actress, the elegant, the grieving, the happy, the brave. What is the camaraderie of the Albergue? How bad are the blisters and the aching bones? What do you need to carry? How tough is it? What tips will make this experience more enjoyable?

This book gives you an honest appraisal of Bobby's experience, walking the Camino Frances in August to September 2023. We follow Bobby over the Pyrenees and experience the Way, across Navarra, Rioja, Castile Et Leon and into Galicia. Meet a cast of characters, experience beautiful views and cities and see where the psychological journey takes this typical pilgrim.